The Polish military has deployed chemical, radiation and explosives experts to a site in southwestern Poland where a Nazi train allegedly missing since the Second World War could be located.

Two men have appeared on Polish television saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold.

We must remember that without the efforts of the Red Army , the Nazis would have been able to complete their attempted genocide of Europe’s Jews, writes Geoffrey Roberts

When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into his arms and rocked her tenderly, tears coming to his eyes.

In another devastating blow to Ukraine’s armed forces, rebels shot down a troop helicopter, killing at least 12 soldiers.

Russia’s defence minister has announced new military exercises along the Ukrainian border just hours after Ukrainian troops killed at least two pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine.

Rochus Misch, who served as Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of the Second World War and was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died. He was 96.

Whether they loved her or loathed her, virtually all the world leaders she ever met stood in awe of Margaret Thatcher.

Whether they loved her or loathed her, virtually all the world leaders she ever met stood in awe of Margaret Thatcher.

The Last Man in Russia and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation

Matthew Zajac tells Colette Sheridan about unearthing the surprising truth about his father’s wartime service

The Soviet Army endured terrible suffering — losing eight million soldiers — in its defeat of Nazi Germany, writes Geoffrey Roberts.

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-1989

A GERMAN court convicted John Demjanjuk for his role in the killing of 27,900 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during the Holocaust, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

Olzhas Auyezov reports from Prypyat, Ukraine, 25 years after the nuclear disaster

EVEN among the long, sad litany of betrayals thrown up by World War II, the calculated abandonment of the Polish resistance after they began the Warsaw uprising in August 1944 stands out.

Japan’s foreign minister said Moscow has no legal right to occupy several disputed islands that have kept their two countries at odds for decades, despite Russia’s increasingly assertive stance.

NEW evidence from Russian archives suggests Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with rescuing tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was alive after Soviets reported that he had died in a Moscow prison, a Swedish magazine and US researchers reported yesterday.

Police have found the infamous Nazi sign stolen from Auschwitz death camp and said it appeared to have been taken by common criminals hoping to sell it to neo Nazis.

Polish police say they have found the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign that was stolen on Friday from the gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz gate.

Polish police and border guards stepped up security checks at airports and border crossings today as the search intensified for the infamous sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp memorial.

A GERMAN court put John Demjanjuk on trial yesterday to face charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp and his lawyer immediately accused the Munich court of bias.

About 3,000 Latvians marched through the capital Riga today under heavy police protection to honour countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II.

LETTERS written to Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s are being published in a book by a German historian this week.

A virus-laden cream that is stuffed up the noses of hospital patients to prevent the spread of MRSA could be available in two years, it was revealed today.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said today stronger economic relations between Russia and Japan would help improve ties between the countries, strained by a 60-year territorial dispute.

In the spirit of secrecy during the week before their conclave to elect a pope, cardinals are supposed to keep a low profile. That has not happened for German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Leaders from 30 countries gathered today to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops.

President Mary McAleese is due to attend a commemoration in Poland today to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

GYPSIES from across Europe met at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland yesterday to remember hundreds of thousands of their ancestors killed by the Nazis and call for wider recognition of the Gypsy Holocaust.

Gypsies from across Europe met at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland today to remember hundreds of thousands of their ancestors killed by the Nazis and call for wider recognition of the Gypsy Holocaust.

GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday honoured Poles who fought Nazi occupiers in the doomed Warsaw Uprising 60 years ago, acknowledging the “immeasurable suffering” Germans inflicted on their neighbours.

Veterans of the Warsaw Uprising laid wreaths and sang patriotic songs today as commemorations peaked with a visit by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a high-profile mission to atone for the Nazis’ brutal crushing of the revolt that began exactly 60 years ago.

Three American doctors were shot dead today in the missionary hospital where they worked in Yemen, security officials said.

Police in Yemen have arrested a gunman in connection with the killing of three American doctors earlier today, security officials said.

Three American doctors were shot dead in Yemen today, security officials said.

Osama bin Laden has urged Muslims to join his holy war in new video footage found in Afghanistan.

A judge today revoked the US citizenship of John Demjanjuk, agreeing with government allegations that he was a Nazi concentration camp guard.

US Marine helicopter gunships have attacked an armoured convoy.

Afghan warlords have a long tradition of changing sides in mid-battle, and none has switched teams more often than Rashid Dostum, the gruff and burly leader of an ethnic Uzbek faction.

Osama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men, and a hero for many young people in the Arab world.